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Ball within a ball

Several weeks ago someone posted a link to a video showing sphere's that this gentleman had turned, and he had turned a ball within a ball. Several of them had finials connected to the inner ball and protruded out through the outer ball. There were even some pictures of the process he used to achieve this. These were awesome turnings, but I watched the video once and then could never find it again. The challenge for our club this month is "sphere's" so I thought I would do what I could from memory sans the finials. The result is below. It's birch and about 4" round the inner ball is still connected in a couple spots because I liked the look of it still being suspended. The inner ball is also pretty rough but I am still happy with it for a first, considering the only hollowing tool I have is a bent and ground allen wrench. If anyone knows the video I am talking about and has a link I would sure appreciate it. C&C always welcome.

I love these. I spent a few weeks in Dresden for work a few yours ago and went and visited "The Green Vault" which is a museum that exhibits pieces from all sorts of different German kings. Anyway, they have a huge collection of these, with some of them going 11 or 12 layers deep.

Excellent. You have done very well on these. I have always been intrigued by the ancient "Chinese Puzzle Balls". They are done in ivory and very intricate. I think Craft Supply sells the Springett tools for doing this type of work.

Thanks everyone for the responses! Bill Edwards posted the video that I remember seeing. Thanks Bill I looked all over for it! Unfortunately I must have web surfed from there to somewhere else that I saw a video showing some of the techniques (it was probably even a different turner). I will keep looking though as I remember it showed some of the tools that he used, some of them being made from wood chisels.